15th
BonerWorld
I just saw Westworld today, for the first time. Definitely a film whose topicality was well ahead of it’s time. Though I can’t help but to think that their notion of the customer’s experience is a bit idealistic if not naive.
Here you have a place filled with robotic life-like people designed and programmed to fit your choosen theme (a western). In this world you can kill, fight, or sleep with any character without any real consequences. The idea that two men would spend thousands of dollars to be there and just play cards while drinking whiskey waiting for dynamic scenarios to present themselves, probably wouldn’t happen.
Like a bizarre lucid dream, I imagine that once someone got over the sex with a robot thing, that’s pretty much all they would be doing in WestWorld. The entire experience would probably devolve into a Sergio Leoni interpretation of a Marquis de Sade book. The dirt streets and wooded walkways would be strewn with tumbleweeds, glass, fake blood, sodomized circuitry, and dismembered robo parts.
